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Racine, Jean Baptiste

 
9780374526160: Phedre: A Play
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ISBN 10: 0374526168 ISBN 13: 9780374526160
Editorial: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2000

Sinopsis

A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.

The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom.

In this "tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of his protagonists. The translation was performed to acclaim in London in 1998, and the London production, starring Diana Rigg, was staged in 1999 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

"We are still catching up with Ted Hughes's gift for narrative verse after his Tales from Ovid," one English critic observed after the London premiere. "Little needs to happen on stage when there's a swirling action-packed disaster movie-riddled with sex and violence-in Hughes's free verse."

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Jean Racine contributed to Phèdre from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

TED HUGHES (1930-1998) published numerous volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction in 1985 and was appointed Poet Laureate of England in 1984.

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Editorial
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0374526168
ISBN 13 
9780374526160
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
98
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